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Leibys "Celly" Mercedes of the Bronx was found guilty of conspiring to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin in Yonkers following a four-day trial. The jury unanimously found him guilty of distributing the heroin to other dealers in the area.
Leibys "Celly" Mercedes of the Bronx was found guilty of conspiring to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin in Yonkers following a four-day trial. The jury unanimously found him guilty of distributing the heroin to other dealers in the area.
A doctor and pharmacist from Westchester were among seven medical professionals that have been accused of illegally distributing millions of oxycodone pills. Yonkers resident Nadem Sayegh, a doctor with offices in Westchester and the Bronx, and Marc Klein, who owns a pharmacy in White Plains, are each facing time behind bars for their roles in a pill mill that has been under investigation.
A sign marks the city of Yonkers, New York in this November 25, 2013 photo. A new analysis of marijuana arrest data suggests that New York's Black and Latinx youth are subject to starkly disproportionate enforcement just outside of NYC, where soaring arrests and signs of police bias have lately drawn scrutiny.
... their victims, stabbing and slashing them multiple times. That was the way Ka'Shawn Phillips , 16, was killed in Yonkers in 2005, and Mahomed Jalloh , 18, in Upper Manhattan in 2010. And it was the way Lesandro Guzman-Feliz , 15, died in the Belmont ...
An entertainment producer from New Jersey shipped thousands of pounds of marijuana for sale hidden in musical speakers from the West Coast to Yonkers and elsewhere, said authorities who busted him and two accused accomplices in a special operation. Oscar Holguin, 38, was arrested in the Central Jersey town of Carteret, just off the New Jersey Turnpike, where authorities said he was assisted by 27-year-old local barmaid Natalie Stojano.
Two accused drug dealers are behind bars after they were nabbed with large amounts of heroin, cocaine, crack, marijuana and cash following an investigation by the Greenburgh Drug & Alcohol Task Force. Michael Matsoukas, 26, and Richard Hoffer, 30 -- both of Yonkers -- were arrested just before 6 p.m. and found to be in possession of 25 bags of powder cocaine, over 20 twists of crack, 75 bags of heroin, $338 cash, 50 bags of marijuana and cannabis oil.
... arrested and charged on April 4 while attempting to meet the Columbia County dealer in a parking lot of a casino in Yonkers. Law enforcement found a plastic bag with about 50 grams of heroin in the parking lot that Pacheco had on him before ...
A "sizable amount of marijuana" and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash were seized in Pleasantville following a lengthy investigation by multiple law enforcement agencies in Westchester County, according to a police spokesperson. Washington Avenue resident Ronnie Bordin, 60, was taken into custody at approximately 12:30 p.m. on Thursday by officers from the Westchester County Police Narcotics Unit and the Yonkers Police Department following the investigation by a county narcotics task force.
